STPINEXT Initiatives

Apiary CoE has a mandate to onboard 100 start-ups over 5 years. Objectives : To identify & support potential cutting-edge IT entrepreneurs especially in the field of Blockchain and significantly contribute towards product development, job creation and enhance economic health of the region. The theme for the ICP 3.0 is “ BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION THRU WEB 3.0 ”. Location : Gurugram, Haryana. Target Beneficiaries :100 start-ups are expected to be benefitted over a period of 5 Years. Offerings include Prize Money to the tune of Rs. 200,000/- for the ‘Best 3 Start-ups of the ICP 3.0’, access to pitch to STPI’s Investors’ Partners Network, State of Art Plug & Play Office Space, opportunities to participate in various Governments’ Programme & Digitization Initiatives, opportunities to work with various Governments’ and Industries’ problem statements, structured training & mentoring by Industry Expert / Domain Mentors, access to IBM, Intel & Amazon Blockchain Platform, and secretarial support for Company Formation, IPR Filings & Regulatory Compliances.

The Smart-farm Grant Challenge is open for participation in teams having experts from all domains of a software development life cycle. It challenges applicants to develop a “Digital solution to predict optimum time of sugarcane harvest” with specific features listed including prediction accuracy, utilization of computer simulations, plot wise polling and yield estimate, remote sugar content estimation, identification of mature/ready plots, poor plots, command area vs survey area identification, water stressed plot identification, results in interpretable formats, validation against real-time digital data, user-friendliness, low power usage, no external hardware dependency, and dissemination through mobile app.

The initiative is expected to contribute to Make-in-India, Startup India & Digital India programmes of Govt. of India by reducing Electronics imports and recognize value of IP & Technology locally. Located at Electronics city, Phase-1. Bengaluru. Operational since 21st September 2020. It provides four models (Complete Package Model (CP), Associate Membership (AM) Model, Internship Model and Technology led Industries Model) to support IoT startups.

The CoE is the first of its kind in India which is an immersion of innovation, creativity and new business development for augmentation of the efficiency in all the business verticals, service sector & also in Government operations/projects leveraging emerging Industry 4.0 technologies. Objectives – To Support start-ups that would build products and solutions to increase the efficiency of the industrial production and operations, service sector, and Government projects, leveraging the emerging technologies. Launched on 30th November 2023. Address / Location: No. 4, 1st Floor, 31st Cross, 11th Main, 4th Block, Jayanagar, Bengaluru - 560011.